Huynh Tan Phat

Huynh Tan Phat (15 February 1913-30 September 1989) was Vice President of Vietnam from 2 July 1976 to 4 July 1981 (succeeding Nguyen Luong Bang) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of State from 4 July 1981 to 12 July 1982. He also served as Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Huynh Tan Phat was born in My Tho, French Indochina in 1913, and he joined the Indochinese Communist Party in May 1945 and became a press and information officer in Saigon. He served two years in a French prison for his revolutionary activities, and he returned to the cause upon his release in 1949. From 1969 to 1975, he chaired the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, and he went on to serve as deputy leader of Vietnam from 1976 to 1982 as a CPV member. He died in 1989.